AggieChemE09 said:

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I think I am going to call the weight loss journey over and consider it a success! From 189lbs in October to 165ish today. My next goal is going to be to get back up to 180lbs over the next year, but good weight this time.

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6 months later and I am still at 165. I picked up BJJ in Feb, so my goal of getting back to 180lbs is going to be put on hold for a while so I can compete at a lower weight division for the next year or so.

Philip J Fry said:

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Started the year over 250. Got down to 229, but started traveling. Maintained for a bit, but the eating out eventually got the best of me. Crept up to 241, but I killed it this week.

Current weight: 237. On my way back to the 220s.

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235. Feels so good to move the scale in the right direction.

bthotugigem05 said:

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1/1/20: 296.6
Whole30 begins
2/3/20: 272.5
3/2/20: 257.0
4/6/20: 240.7
5/4/20: 235.0
6/1/20: 231.7
7/6/20: 218.6
8/17/20: 218.4

Goal is 275 by April
Goal is 250 by April
Goal is 225 by June
Goal is 205 by September
Goal is 196.6 by December

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8/17/20: 215.9
Total lost in 2020: 80.7

Started doing yoga and some jogging along with the peloton, things are moving in the right direction!

4/13/20: 248.8 Starting Weight
4/15/20: 245.2
4/16/20: 244.8
4/17/20: 243.2
4/24/20: 239.6
4/28/20: 238.8
5/5/20: 237.0
5/13/20: 233.8
5/28/20: 233.4
6/4/20: 232.2
6/10/20: 231.4
6/21/20: 229.8
7/1/20: 228.2 - Started Whole30
7/16/20: 218.2 - 10 lbs in 15 days
7/23/20: 217.0
7/31/20: 218.6 - Backsliding UGH!
8/31/20: 220.8 - Backsliding continues

next milestone 209.8...

Goal Weight: 175

A couple positive notes it could have been worse and I bought two new pair of pants 6" smaller than the previous. I am kick'n it back in gear for Sept.

Start end of January...starting weight - 243, Goal-155
Present - 182

Healthy diet and walk 4 miles/day religiously at a 15min /mile average pace.... bad knee and cannot run any longer so walk as fast as I can without exposing my bad knee

My hope is to be 165 - 170 by early Nov before my white tail hunt in South Dakota - up and down the "cooleys" as they call them, can be a bear.

206.5

Had two weeks of vacation and drinking alot. I did get some hiking in and a few other workouts so probably should be ok with essentially flat weight gain.

Wife and I have changed our diet some. She's cooking from a new cookbook and is down to her lowest weight in years.

10 lbs in 10 days. Cut out alcohol, bull**** food, walking twice a day, and a gallon of water per day has me feeling my best in years.

BBQ said:

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Start end of January...starting weight - 243, Goal-155
Present - 182

Healthy diet and walk 4 miles/day religiously at a 15min /mile average pace.... bad knee and cannot run any longer so walk as fast as I can without exposing my bad knee

My hope is to be 165 - 170 by early Nov before my white tail hunt in South Dakota - up and down the "cooleys" as they call them, can be a bear.

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61 pounds in 8 months.

Awesome job BBQ!

217.6 back on track

Make sure and post your bot links to Canadian drugs and whatever else along with your progress.

How does that MFer still have an active account? We got him kicked off this thread once before already.

-3 lbs (gain of 3) ytd. Not having a work gym open makes it very difficult to maintain right now.

My Jouney in 2020:
Started about 215, got down to 207, then COVID, up to 228, back down to 219 today.

I'm up to 207. Absolutely freaking stuck.

Wife is down 20 pounds down and has changed nothing other than stopped drinking. And she walks maybe twice a week.

Oh well, she's looking hot so I guess I got that going for me.

Hit the one year anniversary mark for my diet on the 4th. Total lost over that one year is 124. I can really tell my metabolism has slowed down. And I've been having to travel four days a week which is more challenging for my diet. Have about 30 to go to get to where I really want to be. Really going to push to get there over the next three months.

Well, this year has pretty much sucked fitness wise for my wife and I. No bike races plus extremely understaffed so working double hours put me in a big hole. Every time I started to get on the bike, something else came up, so back to 80 hours per week at the school.

We started Optavia last week. A friend of my wife and her husband did it with great success, so now they are our "coaches". Doing this together has helped keep us in line and on plan. In the past, I'd start on the right path, but then she'd want to go eat, or drink beers, or both, and I have a hard time saying no to whatever she wants.

Today, I cheated by getting on the scale a day early to see where I am. 8.4 pounds since last Tuesday (we're not supposed to weigh ourselves until tomorrow).

First week is both the hardest and the easiest. Got through the hunger pangs. Got through feeling really weak on the bike / trainer. Now I feel like we're in a groove. But, I also know the beginning is when the most weight comes off.

TxsAggieFn said:

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Well, this year has pretty much sucked fitness wise for my wife and I. No bike races plus extremely understaffed so working double hours put me in a big hole. Every time I started to get on the bike, something else came up, so back to 80 hours per week at the school.

We started Optavia last week. A friend of my wife and her husband did it with great success, so now they are our "coaches". Doing this together has helped keep us in line and on plan. In the past, I'd start on the right path, but then she'd want to go eat, or drink beers, or both, and I have a hard time saying no to whatever she wants.

Today, I cheated by getting on the scale a day early to see where I am. 8.4 pounds since last Tuesday (we're not supposed to weigh ourselves until tomorrow).

First week is both the hardest and the easiest. Got through the hunger pangs. Got through feeling really weak on the bike / trainer. Now I feel like we're in a groove. But, I also know the beginning is when the most weight comes off.

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Fantastic. Optavia is what I am on and what facilitated the 124 pounds lost since last December 5th. Sound like you only need to lose a fraction of what I need/needed. However, my wife is 5'8" and 135 when I started the diet and quickly got down to 127 in month before our doctor told her to "stop it....you're going to start losing bone"....so it works in all situations.

Correct, about 4 of those 8 pounds are water/carb weight.....but 3 to 4 pounds a week is absolutely a reasonable expectation if you stay on the plan. Just keep on keeping on. Let me know if you have any questions about my experience with Optavia. Remember.....it's a lot easier to lose the weight than it is to keep the weight off....so don't forget to concentrate on the life skills part of ensuring permanent weight loss.

HarleySpoon said:

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TxsAggieFn said:

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Well, this year has pretty much sucked fitness wise for my wife and I. No bike races plus extremely understaffed so working double hours put me in a big hole. Every time I started to get on the bike, something else came up, so back to 80 hours per week at the school.

We started Optavia last week. A friend of my wife and her husband did it with great success, so now they are our "coaches". Doing this together has helped keep us in line and on plan. In the past, I'd start on the right path, but then she'd want to go eat, or drink beers, or both, and I have a hard time saying no to whatever she wants.

Today, I cheated by getting on the scale a day early to see where I am. 8.4 pounds since last Tuesday (we're not supposed to weigh ourselves until tomorrow).

First week is both the hardest and the easiest. Got through the hunger pangs. Got through feeling really weak on the bike / trainer. Now I feel like we're in a groove. But, I also know the beginning is when the most weight comes off.

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Fantastic. Optavia is what I am on and what facilitated the 124 pounds lost since last December 5th. Sound like you only need to lose a fraction of what I need/needed. However, my wife is 5'8" and 135 when I started the diet and quickly got down to 127 in month before our doctor told her to "stop it....you're going to start losing bone"....so it works in all situations.

Correct, about 4 of those 8 pounds are water/carb weight.....but 3 to 4 pounds a week is absolutely a reasonable expectation if you stay on the plan. Just keep on keeping on. Let me know if you have any questions about my experience with Optavia. Remember.....it's a lot easier to lose the weight than it is to keep the weight off....so don't forget to concentrate on the life skills part of ensuring permanent weight loss.

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Wow! That is really impressive! Congrats and keep it up (well, down).

My goal is to lose 60-65, so about 1/2 of what you've lost so far. 1/2 is definitely a fraction ;-)

I don't have any questions just yet, but thanks. I'll definitely reach out when I do.

HarleySpoon said:

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TxsAggieFn said:

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Well, this year has pretty much sucked fitness wise for my wife and I. No bike races plus extremely understaffed so working double hours put me in a big hole. Every time I started to get on the bike, something else came up, so back to 80 hours per week at the school.

We started Optavia last week. A friend of my wife and her husband did it with great success, so now they are our "coaches". Doing this together has helped keep us in line and on plan. In the past, I'd start on the right path, but then she'd want to go eat, or drink beers, or both, and I have a hard time saying no to whatever she wants.

Today, I cheated by getting on the scale a day early to see where I am. 8.4 pounds since last Tuesday (we're not supposed to weigh ourselves until tomorrow).

First week is both the hardest and the easiest. Got through the hunger pangs. Got through feeling really weak on the bike / trainer. Now I feel like we're in a groove. But, I also know the beginning is when the most weight comes off.

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Fantastic. Optavia is what I am on and what facilitated the 124 pounds lost since last December 5th. Sound like you only need to lose a fraction of what I need/needed. However, my wife is 5'8" and 135 when I started the diet and quickly got down to 127 in month before our doctor told her to "stop it....you're going to start losing bone"....so it works in all situations.

Correct, about 4 of those 8 pounds are water/carb weight.....but 3 to 4 pounds a week is absolutely a reasonable expectation if you stay on the plan. Just keep on keeping on. Let me know if you have any questions about my experience with Optavia. Remember.....it's a lot easier to lose the weight than it is to keep the weight off....so don't forget to concentrate on the life skills part of ensuring permanent weight loss.

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Okay. 14 pounds lost. Nearly a quarter of my goal, in just 16 days. I'm sold.

TxsAggieFn said:

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HarleySpoon said:

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TxsAggieFn said:

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Well, this year has pretty much sucked fitness wise for my wife and I. No bike races plus extremely understaffed so working double hours put me in a big hole. Every time I started to get on the bike, something else came up, so back to 80 hours per week at the school.

We started Optavia last week. A friend of my wife and her husband did it with great success, so now they are our "coaches". Doing this together has helped keep us in line and on plan. In the past, I'd start on the right path, but then she'd want to go eat, or drink beers, or both, and I have a hard time saying no to whatever she wants.

Today, I cheated by getting on the scale a day early to see where I am. 8.4 pounds since last Tuesday (we're not supposed to weigh ourselves until tomorrow).

First week is both the hardest and the easiest. Got through the hunger pangs. Got through feeling really weak on the bike / trainer. Now I feel like we're in a groove. But, I also know the beginning is when the most weight comes off.

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Fantastic. Optavia is what I am on and what facilitated the 124 pounds lost since last December 5th. Sound like you only need to lose a fraction of what I need/needed. However, my wife is 5'8" and 135 when I started the diet and quickly got down to 127 in month before our doctor told her to "stop it....you're going to start losing bone"....so it works in all situations.

Correct, about 4 of those 8 pounds are water/carb weight.....but 3 to 4 pounds a week is absolutely a reasonable expectation if you stay on the plan. Just keep on keeping on. Let me know if you have any questions about my experience with Optavia. Remember.....it's a lot easier to lose the weight than it is to keep the weight off....so don't forget to concentrate on the life skills part of ensuring permanent weight loss.

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Okay. 14 pounds lost. Nearly a quarter of my goal, in just 16 days. I'm sold.

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Fantastic! Great job. It works if you follow the plan.

Frederick Palowaski said:

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12/31- 272
1/20 - 259

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2/17- 248

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Update

Been a while. It has been tough with the quarantine but close to my goal.

5/1 - 226

Total loss 46 lbs.

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Been a long time. Got to my goal in May and have been able to keep it off which has surprised me. Was down to 219 and have been fluctuating to around 230 now during the holidays. Working to keep in the 220's through NY.

Great job everyone